County Clerk's Report

County Clerk E. B. Clark made a detailed report to the board of supervisors, showing the largo amount of work which has been done in rearranging the nies of his office, and the excellent condition into which they have now been brought. This has required an immense amount of labor, and that it has been well done, all who havo occasion to refer to the files will agree. The work has necessitated the purchase of 25,000 file covers, and the purchase and inspection of the material has required and received from the clerk the closest attenüon. Besides a great mass of miscellaneous matter, consisting of returns of births, deaths and marriages, supervisors' papers of all kind, and and others too numerous to mention, estimated at from 25,000 to 30,000 in all, some 26,000 cases in law and chancery, containing about 260,000 separate papers, have been overhauled and assorted, each paper being marked with the letter of the calendar, and its proper number, each file cover also marked with the same calendar - letter and number, the names of the partiea, and attorneys also, where possible. The writing alone required for all this is estimated at 20,000 folios. It was found that four calendars were entirely gone from the office, and no trace of them has been found. Tho cases of two of thom were not pon tho indexes at all. These have all been uppiied. The miscellaneous papers have been roperly arranged and tho files placed in umerical order, the whole work being careully and accuratoly done, and, as the clerk well says, il is a matter of prido that Washteaw county can boast of the best arrangement f its files and papers of any office in the tate. Mr. Clark pays a high tribute to the fidelky and capacity with which the work has been arried out by his assistants under his superision. The expense iucurred which covers the peiod of the last two years is as follows : ohn M. Wade li'A days S 21 88 Philip Winegar 136 days 2H 00 Wm.A. Clark 424 days 630 00 L.F. Wade 208 days 312 05 Clerk's services - 30 00 Total -1M73 88